Colletotrichum

Colletotrichum (sexual stage: Glomerella) is a genus of fungi that are symbionts to plants as endophytes (living within the plant) or phytopathogens. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens, but some species may have a mutualistic relationship with hosts.[1]

Colletotrichum
C. lindemuthianum on bean pods
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Glomerellales
Family:	Glomerellaceae
Genus:	Colletotrichum Corda, 1831
Species
See text

Species

• Colletotrichum acutatum
• Colletotrichum agaves
• Colletotrichum alcornii
• Colletotrichum arachidis
• Colletotrichum axonopodi
• Colletotrichum baltimorense
• Colletotrichum capsici
• Colletotrichum caudatum
• Colletotrichum cereale
• Colletotrichum chrysophilum
• Colletotrichum coccodes
• Colletotrichum coffeanum
• Colletotrichum crassipes
• Colletotrichum dematium
• Colletotrichum derridis
• Colletotrichum destructivum
• Colletotrichum falacatum
• Colletotrichum fragariae
• Colletotrichum gloeosporioides
• Colletotrichum gossypii
• Colletotrichum graminicola
• Colletotrichum hanaui
• Colletotrichum higginsianum
• Colletotrichum jacksonii
• Colletotrichum kahawae
• Colletotrichum lindemuthianum
• Colletotrichum lini
• Colletotrichum mangenotii
• Colletotrichum miscanthi
• Colletotrichum musae
• Colletotrichum nicholsonii
• Colletotrichum nigrum
• Colletotrichum orbiculare
• Colletotrichum paspali
• Colletotrichum pisi
• Colletotrichum sichuanensis
• Colletotrichum somersetense
• Colletotrichum sublineolum
• Colletotrichum theobromicola
• Colletotrichum trichellum
• Colletotrichum trifolii
• Colletotrichum truncatum
• Colletotrichum viniferum
• Colletotrichum zoysiae

References

1. Rodriguez, R.; Redman, R. (2008). "More than 400 million years of evolution and some plants still can't make it on their own: plant stress tolerance via fungal symbiosis". Journal of Experimental Botany. 59 (5): 1109–1114. doi:10.1093/jxb/erm342. PMID 18267941.

Further reading

• Cai, L.; et al. (2009). "A polyphasic approach for studying Colletotrichum" (PDF). Fungal Diversity. 39: 183–204.
• Damm, U.; Cannon, P. F.; Woudenberg, J. H. C.; Johnston, P. R.; Weir, B. S.; Tan, Y. P.; Shivas, R. G.; Crous, P. W. (September 2012). "The Colletotrichum boninense species complex". Studies in Mycology. 73 (1): 1–36. doi:10.3114/sim0002. PMC 3458415. PMID 23136457.
• Damm, U.; Baroncelli, R.; Cai, L.; Kubo, Y.; O'Connell, R.; Weir, B.; Yoshino, K.; Cannon, P. F. (2010). "Colletotrichum: species, ecology and interactions". IMA Fungus. 1 (2): 161–165. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2010.01.02.08. PMC 3348780. PMID 22679575.
• Hyde, K. D. et al. 2009. Colletotrichum - names in current use. Fungal Diversity 39 147–83.
• Weir, B. S.; Johnston, P. R. (2010). "Characterisation and neotypification of Gloeosporium kaki Hori as Colletotrichum horii nom. nov". Mycotaxon. 111 (1): 209–219. doi:10.5248/111.209.
• Vieira, W. A. S.; Lima, W. G.; Nascimento, E. S.; Michereff, S. J.; Câmara, M. P. S.; Doyle, V. P. (2018). "The impact of phenotypic and molecular data on the inference of Colletotrichum diversity associated with Musa". Mycologia. 109 (6): 912–934. doi:10.1080/00275514.2017.1418577. PMID 29494311.
• Liu, F.; Tang, G.; Zheng, X.; Li, Y.; Sun, X.; Qi, X.; Zhou, Y.; Xu, J.; Chen, H.; Chang, X.; Zhang, S.; Gong, G. (2016). "Molecular and phenotypic characterization of Colletotrichum species associated with anthracnose disease in peppers from Sichuan Province, China". Scientific Reports. 6 (1): 32761. Bibcode:2016NatSR...632761L. doi:10.1038/srep32761. PMC 5016793. PMID 27609555.